Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of
A Trip to Scarborough, announced on playbill of 9 Mar.] 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan]: With a new Scene invented and designed by
DeLoutherbourg for the occasion. [Music composed by
Thomas Linley Sen.
Miss Wright is identified on playbill of 24 May; and see 19 Feb.]
Public Advertiser, 27 Mar. 1779: This Afternoon at Four is published
A Monody (1s. 6d.). Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #213 10s. 6d. (180.18.0; 32.6.0; 0.6.6). "Some of the verses [of the
Monody] were responded [to] by the principal vocalists, accompanied by the band, who occupied an or
chestra built on the stage, as at the oratorios. The whole of the performers [were] requested to appear in black clothes" (
Parke, I, 17)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The West Indian
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland
Afterpiece Title: A Monody
Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb